Tell us if Xavier Rolet was paid to keep quiet, LSE investor insists as bust-up deepens

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The founder of The Children's Investment Fund, which owns 5pc of the London Stock Exchange, has been on an aggressive campaign to keep LSE's chief executive Xavier Rolet in the role after claiming he was forced out.

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One of the London Stock Exchange's top investors has fired out a list of questions it wants answered over the "dismissal" of the exchange's chief executive ahead of a crunch meeting that could result in the chairman removed.

A bust-up between the LSE and the founder of The Children's Investment Fund, which owns 5pc of the exchange, deepened on Wednesday after the LSE canned its meeting with the investor because TCI had called for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) - meaning the board needs to engage with all investors equally.

TCI founder Sir Chris Hohn then sent out a letter to chairman Donald Brydon listing ten questions he wants answered before the meeting. A date for the meeting has...